This may sound peculiar, but I don’t necessarily pick games for this column and expect to hate them. Spelunker, for example, I legitimately like, despite its reputation. So I went into Sonic the Hedgehog ‘06 with a little bit of...

Cblogs of 5/22 to 5/28/2021 -Gamingnerd writes an excellent retrospective on the Dragon Quest series on its 35th anniversary. -Nior discusses the gaming industry in Brazil by sharing the story about the failings of the world's first digita...

Earlier in the week, we revealed that Sega's upcoming slugger Virtua Fighter 5: Ultimate Showdown was getting an amusing DLC bundle, offering players the opportunity to play as the entire Virtua Fighter 5 clan in a fashion recalling their o...

The super dev squad of Guard Crush Games, Lizardcube, and Dotemu have revealed the third character headed to their fantastic scrolling brawler Streets of Rage 4. In what is unlikely to come as a surprise to the fanbase, it is the high-kicki...

Did you catch the Sonic stream yesterday? No worries, we recapped the whole thing. Of note, we got confirmation of the Sonic Colors remaster under the "Ultimate" moniker, as well as a tease for what is likely a new Sonic game...

While Sega offered a variety of details pertaining to its upcoming release Virtua Fighter 5: Ultimate Showdown yesterday, one aspect of the game went mysteriously unspoken: the all-important netcode. The silence has been deafening, as Ultim...

Well that was fast! Haha, get it? Sega promised new announcements today during their Sonic Central stream, and that's just what we got. The big news? A Sonic Colors revival and a tease for the first new Sonic game in years, which ...

Oh Sonic Central. You were about to leave us with "here's a remaster" and "a bunch of merch and collaborations," but you just had to give us one more tease! Right as the stream was about to end, Sega gave us that classic "one more thing." F...

Can't get enough Sonic retro compilations? Well, Sega can't either! Later this year Sega will release Sonic Origins, which packages together Sonic 1, 2, 3, Sonic and Knuckles, and Sonic CD. "More info will be coming later in the year,"...

It's Sonic stream day, and does it feel like E3 is here already? Because it's kind of here. In what might be the biggest news of the week, Sega has announced that Sonic Colors is getting a remaster. Described as "better than ever," the...

"You're too slow!" Wait, I'm right on time! In just 30 minutes we'll see what the future of Sonic the Hedgehog entails. The official teaser for what Sega calls "Sonic Central" involves: "upcoming projects, partnerships, and events." Th...

It might not have hit the ring just yet, but Sega has already announced a day-one DLC pack for its upcoming Virtua Fighter 5: Ultimate Showdown. The aesthetic-only add-on sees Akira and pals return to their strangely unnerving polygonal roo...

Sega announced today that the official video game for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, that may or may not still happen, will be released on June 22, 2021. It features track-and-field events, baseball, rock climbing, and more, but most importantly,...

Sony has announced its PlayStation Plus lineup for June, the month of E3 2021, and it's a good mix of both old and new. On the PlayStation 5 side, Plus subscribers can pick up Operation: Tango, a new upcoming co-op infiltration game. One pl...

[Update: In this roller coaster of a saga, four months after announcing that he was departing the role of Sonic with a broken blue heart, voice actor Roger Craig Smith tweeted out a picture of a mended heart, noting: "I hope to honor your s...

News is on the way for Sonic fans. Sega announced today that it will be hosting Sonic Central, a Sonic the Hedgehog streaming event, on Thursday, May 27. The virtual event will air on May 27 at 9 a.m. PT / 12 p.m. ET, on both the Sonic YouT...

Jūnen hayainda yo! Sega has announced that the recently leaked Virtua Fighter 5: Ultimate Showdown will be released as soon as next week. As revealed by IGN, the updated edition of one of the finest 3D fighters of all time will return as a...

Sonic the Hedgehog came out in early 2020 and managed to sneak in a pretty good box office showing: and was apparently enough of a hit on home video to strike up a deal for a sequel. Thankfully the same creative team is returning, so there'...

Sega has announced that it will be holding a Japanese live stream next week to announce the details of its previously teased "Virtua Fighter x eSports Project" The stream will be held on May 27 on the publisher's newly launched Virtua Fight...

Look, Sega doesn't have to sell me on a new Phantasy Star Online project. It's been... a while since we've gotten one of those. I mean the west just got PSO 2 recently, which is great! But the prospect of starting something on a c...

I can't begin to describe the whiplash I experienced today when I learned that not only is there a toy duck version of Yakuza's Kazuma Kiryu, he's just the latest in a long and bewildering line of gaming, movie, and comic book characters &m...

In case you don't follow along with Atlus games and see them when you see them, typically the company does a long lead of releasing games in Japan first, then elsewhere, roughly six months later. This happened most recently with Shin Megami...

Sega has released its latest financial earnings report, and among the facts and figures pertaining to the legendary publisher's fiscal year, lies a mysterious tease for a brand new project set to launch at some point this generation. As spo...

For years, folks have been making Sonic fan games without reprisal from Sega. It's an institution! And in some cases, folks are even hired to make official Sonic games off the back of their work. It's a well known entity that Sega...

A delightful piece of archival footage has surfaced on YouTube, which shows Japanese cosplayers battling it out in a 1995 tournament on Sega's Fighting Vipers. The footage appears as part of a Japanese gaming show, and was uploaded to YouTu...